The Irish standard., 1887-07-09
CATHOLIC NEWS.
RELIGIOUS Notes.

Religious Notes.
The new orphan asylum at st. Paul
will be dedicated on the third Sunday Of
July by Bishop Ireland.
A colony of 100 Catholic families from
Canada is about to be established in
Snohomish county, Washington terri
tory.
Bishop LougLlin, of Brooklyn, is the
senior Catholic prelate of the country.
He has worn the purple for thirty-four
years.
Father Nash, of the Sacred Heart,
Brooklyn, has just started to build a
$4,000 school house. The parish is out
of debt.
The Rev. Patrick Toner, of Scranton {,
Pa, has been named Missionary Apostle
with all the privileges inherent to that
position.
A church was consecrated at Eldorado,
South Africa, about the beginning of the
month. 1t is the first Catholic church
erected in that region.
The Right Rev. Bishop Sanssens, Of
Natchez, Miss, has begun the establish
ment of fund for the assistance of aged
and infrm priests of his diocese.
The absence of English Catholics
from the jubilee services in Westminster
Abbey was due to the attendance being
prohibited by the Propaganda.
Father Neithart succeeds Father
Dodsworth as director of the Redemp-
torist' Community at the Rock chnrch,
st. Louis. The latter goes to New Or
leans.
Rev. NJ. Mcdonnell, Superior of the
Home of the Sacred Heart for Boys
Iona, Murray county, Mimi, has started
to build little church on the prairie in
the vicinity of the home.
The government of the colored repub-
lie of Liberia has applied to the Holy
See for Catholic missionaries for the adj
vancement of religion. The Supreme
Pontiff has granted the request.
There are now 143 churches and 1853
priests in the diocese of Brooklyn. In
1858 there were only nineteen churches
and twenty-three priests. The diocese
is one of the largest in the world.
Rev. Henry Imoda, s. j., has been
elected President of st. Ignatius Col
lege, San Francisco, to succeed Rev.
Joseph SASHA, s. j., whose term of Office
expired by limitation. and who goes to
Santa Clara College.
The first move toward building a
Catholic church in Brooklyn was made
at a meeting held in the house of Peter
Turner, Front and Washington streets,
January l, 1922. There were then sew
enty Catholics in Brooklyn.
The Voce della Verita says the Holy
Father has written letter in which he
desires that the study of Hebrew be
made oblie atory in every clerical SEM
mary in the world. Some time ago he
wrote to the President of Maynooth Col
lege to the same effect.
Rev. Sylvester Malone, the Williams
burgh patriarch, will celebrate the forty
third anniversary of his ordination on
August IA. He took charge of the Will
liamsburgh church on September IL,
1874. He was born in Trim, county
Meath, Ireland, May 8. 1921.
The Vatican is already overcrowded
with gifts from various countries. Room
can hardly be found for them. It would
be we'll if American Catholics, instead of
sending separate articles, would make
up big Peter Pence collection. The
Holy Father is entirely dependent on the
charity of the Christian world.
Rev. Father Rotter, of Peoria, re-
Gently blessed the chime of bells in the
belfry of the new German church, st.
Mary's, at Bloomington, Ill. The bells
are four in number, and are the gift of
Mr.. F. K. Wechner, of that city. The
church will be dedicated on July 10 by
Rt. Rev. Bishop Spalding, of Peoria.
In 1848 there were but thirty adult
Irish Catholics in the city Of Montreal,
Canada. They were first gathered to-
gether for special religious service by
Father Richards, Sulpican, in the Bon
Secours Church. Now there are 10000
Irish Catholics, having splendid
churches of their own in the same city.
Mr.. Patrick Kelley, the architect, who
has built over three hundred Catholic
churches, is a resident of st. Johns
chapel parish, Brooklyn. He will have
charge Of the work on the new cathedral,
the plans of which he drew up, and
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